There are about 21062 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Italy. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
This is a study to demonstrate the effect of oral ozanimod as maintenance therapy in participants with moderately to severely active Crohn's Disease.
CONTROLLED TRIAL ON THE EFFECT OF TOMATO PRODUCTS IN OBESE CHILDREN WITH NON ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE Aim of the study To evaluate the effect of the addition of a daily dose of lycopene enriched tomato sauce on the progress of NAFDL in obese children. Participants Children with obesity referred to the Hepatology unit of Dept.of Pediatric Clinic of the University Federico II of Naples. Diagnosis of NAFLD is made on the presence of fatty liver at ultrasound examination, with or without hypertransaminasemia. Patients are eligible on the basis of: - Age 4-14 years - BMI > 85°percentile - Liver Steatosis evaluated as mild, moderate or severe by US (hyperechogenic liver tissue compared with the adjacent kidney cortex) Patients are excluded on the basis of: - Liver disease - Diabetes or manifest metabolic alterations - Associated diseases Informed consent is obtained from the parents of the participating children. Sample size estimation To provide an 80% power to detect a 25% or greater relative shift of outcome variables, with a first degree error of .05 a sample of 50 cases is estimated in a cross over trial. Study design This is a randomized, crossover, one side open trial with blinded outcome evaluation. A statistician who is not otherwise involved in the trial generated the randomized assignment sequence. At the enrollment all participants received a low carotenoids diet for two weeks (wash out), then children are assigned to the first intervention for 8 weeks, and subsequently, in the crossover phase, they are switched to the second intervention for the next 8 weeks. No wash out is planned between the two treatments. Interventions 1. Supplemented diet: 100 gr/day of Lycopene enriched tomato products (weekly average) 2. Control diet: ordinary healthy diet, with no special encouragement to eat carotenes products All children are put on a 'mediterranean style' diet, with a controlled amount of calories: a dedicated dietitian for the whole study, irrespective of the treatment, checked their diet twice a week. At beginning (T0) and at the end of each treatment (T1 and T2) all patients underwent anthropomorphic measurements, including weight, height, waist, abdomen and hips circumferences. BMI and its standard deviation score are calculated. Regardless of group assignment, all participants are seen by a hepatologist at the end of each intervention and checked for liver steatosis, by US. Fasting blood samples are collected at beginning (T0) and at the end of each treatment (T1 and T2) to evaluate IR (assessed by HOMA), transaminases levels, lipids profile, oxidative state (assessed by antioxidant enzymes activity, serum levels of MDA and carbonylated proteins), inflammatory state (by cytokines serum levels, typing of lymphocytes subpopulations, metabolism of lymphocytes). Data collection are performed in a partially blind fashion: the statistician performing data analysis is blind to treatment. Outcomes: The primary outcome is reduction of the liver steatosis estimated by US Scan, according to the following parameters: parenchyma echogenicity (compared with that of the cortical of the right kidney), far gain attenuation, diaphragm blurring. steatosis. Secondary outcomes is reduction in Insulin resistance, Oxidative state, Inflammatory state. Statistical Analysis Data are inspected for normality and paired t-test (before/after) of each phase of the trial are performed when appropriate. The Median % change of each variable between the values at Time 8 and 16 weeks and values at enrollment are also looked. Ordinal logistic regression analysis, hierarchical, mixed model with adjustment variables are adopted to estimate the size of the effect. The study is approved by the Ethical Committee of University Federico II of Naples.
The transition from the Pediatric clinic to the adult care is a challenging period for young adults with type 1 diabetes, due to the high risk of poor glycemic control. Achieving the glycemic target without hypoglycemia and/or large glucose excursions is of paramount importance for type 1 diabetic patients, who have high variability of daily glucose levels . Both insulin pump therapy and multiple daily injections of insulin are recommended strategy to achieve glycemic control in type 1 diabetes; however, no studies investigated the effects of insulin pump vs insulin injections on glycol-metabolic outcomes in the transition phase. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) therapy, as compared with multiple daily injections of insulin (MDI), on glycemic and metabolic control, in young type 1 diabetic patients transitioned to the adult diabetes care.
This trial is a randomized, open-label Phase I-2 multi-center study designed to evaluate the effect of Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab (in combination and maintenance) vs Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab-Rucaparib (Rucaparib only in maintenance) vs Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Rucaparib (Rucaparib only in maintenance) on progression-free survival in patients with advanced high grade ovarian cancer treated according to HRD status . The trial will test the hypothesis that Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab-Rucaparib and the Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Rucaparib arms will improve the progression-free survival in comparison to standard Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab in HRD negative (HR proficient) patients and that Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab-Rucaparib will improve PFS with respect to Carboplatin-Paclitaxel-Rucaparib in HRD positive patients. The randomized phase of the study will be preceded by a single arm Phase I study which will be conducted only in the National Cancer Institute of Milan, aiming at evaluating the MTD of the combination Rucaparib-Bevacizumab. Once the MTD has been reached, the randomized study will start.
Evaluation of clinical response in terms of resectability of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus stereotactic body radiotherapy.
Soft tissue attachment to the implant surface serves as a biological seal preventing the development of inflammatory periimplant diseases (i.e. peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis).It occurs in the presence of a biomaterial during healing of the surgical wound that might be influence by this foreign body. Myofibroblasts represent key players in the physiological reconstruction of connective tissue after injury. This work will focus on the role of myofibroblasts during the early phases of the healing process in peri-implant tissues around four different abutment materials.
Randomized Phase II Trial in sstr2 Positive Tumors to Optimize the Interval Between Cycles of PRRT With 177lu-dotatate
This trial aims to assess the immunological and metabolic changes induced by the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) in the pre-operative and post-operative setting in breast cancer and melanoma patients. Three cohorts of patients will be enrolled: 1) Cohort A: patients with resectable breast cancer (cT1N0M0 stage or cT1cN1M0-cT2cN0M0 stages not requiring pre-operative systemic treatment at the judgment of the investigator) who are candidate to curative surgery; 2) Cohort B: patients with malignant melanoma patients candidate to dissection of the lymph node basin because of a positive sentinel lymph node (stage IIIA-IIIB-IIIC); 3) Cohort C: patients with resected malignant melanoma (including radicalization and, in case, lymph node dissection) who are not candidate to any adjuvant treatment, but only to clinical and radiological follow-up (stage IIB-IIC). Patients in cohorts A and B will undergo one 5-days FMD cycle about 13-15 days before surgical removal of primary tumor (breast) or lymph nodes (breast, melanoma). Patients in cohort C will undergo 4 consecutive FMD cycles every 28 days, starting one month after surgery.
multi-centre, prospective, diagnostic trial to evaluate the Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA-antigen) over-expression in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and in advanced/metastatic solid tumors patients.
Peri-implantitis are important disease entities as a result of their high prevalence and the lack of a standard mode of therapy. Non-surgical therapy of peri-implant disease, especially when bone loss is not high, appears to be partially effective in resolving the disease. In several cases, however, only limited improvements have been reported in the main clinical parameters (bleeding at the survey and presence of the pocket) and there is a clear tendency to relapse of the disease. In these cases it is therefore recommended to consider adjunctive therapies. Numerous approaches have been used for implant surface decontamination including mechanical, chemical and treatments by means of air-powder or laser. The aim of the present randomized controlled clinical trial will be to assess the efficacy in improving clinical parameters of two further methods of implant surface decontamination (Er:YAG laser or air-abrasive device) after mechanical and chemical cleaning during non surgical treatment of peri-implantitis.